The Land of Upright People
July 27, 2010 at 00:30 AM EDT
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d’Ivoire to the southwest. focusonforests.org Burkina is 274,000 km² with a population of plus 15 million it’s people belong to one of two major West African cultural groups – the Voltaic and the Mande. Formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta (The country owes its former name of Upper Volta to three rivers which cross it: the Black Volta (or Mouhoun), the White Volta (Nakambé) and the Red Volta (Nazinon). It…